Social Affairs

Labour export sets new record in 2018 (Photo: VGP)According to the department under the Ministry of Labour, War-Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), in 2018, the Japanese labour market, for the first time, passed the Taiwanese (China) labour market to become Vietnam’s largest labour export market (over 67,000), followed by Taiwan (65,000), the Republic of Korea (6,000), and Saudi Arabia, Romania, Malaysia, Kuwait and others. Report by the Vietnam Association of Manpower Supply (VAMAS) shows that in 2018, only 6 of 28 labour export markets received 1,000 or more Vietnamese labourers per year, including China’s Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, the Republic of Korea, Romania and Saudi Arabia, with over 90% of Vietnamese labour going to the Japanese and Taiwanese labour markets. The record number of exported labourers comes from localities’ efforts in carrying out labour export policies. In Hanoi, the city Department of Labour, War-Invalids and Social Affairs has increased … [Read more...] about Labour export sets new record

A supportive construction inaugurated in Xuan Son pre- and primary school in Phu Tho province. (Photo: NFVC)According to Mr. Tien, the assistance is carried out through 17 programs on supporting heart, eye, mouth and lip surgeries. Additionally, the money has also been used to give scholarships, safe water, schools and boarding houses for disadvantaged and mountainous area pupils; and provide rescue to those in natural disaster and epidemic-affected regions. Free milk provision, eye care, dissemination of autism children information, and support for pupils at risk of dropping out of school are among four outstanding programs using the assistance capital. In the upcoming lunar New Year festival, the NFVC in collaboration with Vietnam Television will organize the 12th art performance “Spring for Children” which is expected to collect donation from communities for giving Tet presents to disadvantaged children. Throughout 11 times, the program collected over VND1 trillion and … [Read more...] about Nearly 105,000 disadvantaged children assisted

At the workshop (Photo: PANO)The figures were announced during the launching workshop “Multidimensional poverty in Vietnam: Reducing poverty in all its dimensions to ensure a good quality life for all” held by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Ministry of Labor, War-Invalids and Social Affairs, the Ethnic Minorities Committee and the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) on December 19th.   The report at the workshop confirmed Vietnam’s impressive progress in realizing the sustainable development goal 1 (SDG1) by remarkably reducing extreme poverty from 49.2% in 1992 to 2% in 2016. Among 17 SDGs that Vietnam commits to realize by 2030, SDG1 on poverty reduction is the most likely to be realized. Poverty reduction achievements have helped Vietnam rank 57th among 193 UN member countries in terms of SDG index in 2018, increasing 9 rankings compared to 2017. Realizing the role of other factors, besides income, to people’s quality of … [Read more...] about Some 6 million Vietnamese people escape poverty

Businesses in Ho Chi Minh city need a greater number of labourers in 2019. (Photo: baotintuc.vn)The recruited positions are mainly in digital marketing, customer service, logistics service, retail, fashion service and consumption goods. In particular, the demand for information and technology industry will sharply increase in 2019. “As the digital trade is undergoing strong development, the human resource demand in sectors relating to digital trade will be increased in 2019,” said Mr. Tuan. “More and more businesses are running digital trade activities, thus creating more jobs”. He added that the increase in import-export, investment, logistics services in Ho Chi Minh city in particular and in Vietnam in general has required a greater number of high quality human resources./. Compiled by BTA … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh city to provide over 320,000 jobs

This year’s theme is “Volunteers Build Resilient Communities” and celebrates volunteers who contribute to making their communities more resilient against natural disasters, economic stresses and political shocks. “I am proud of Australian volunteers, not only because they have contributed to the success of Vietnamese organisations, but also more broadly to Vietnamese development in general and because they are great ambassadors who create strong people to people links between Australia and Vietnam” said Mr Craig Chittick.Photo: Australian Embassy in VietnamSince 1973, more than 1,000 Australian volunteers have worked in Vietnam in diverse fields including education and training, community development, private sector, agriculture, gender equality and health. Their contributions have assisted partner organisations in Vietnam build capacity to effectively deliver their development objectives. The Executive Director of REACH, an Australian Volunteers program … [Read more...] about Australian volunteers contribute to community development in Vietnam

Planned to be implemented from March 2019 to March 2021, the technical cooperation project aims at improving VWU’s capacity in promoting development and delivery of financial and non-financial services responding to the needs of local women. The two parties will work side by side to provide training to financial service providers (microfinance organizations and institutes, commercial banks…) on the basis of gender-responsive financial inclusion and good practices from other countries. At the same time, it will support some selected financial service providers to develop new products which respond to the diversified needs at women’s different stages of life. Lessons learnt and hands-on experiences will be shared with Vietnamese policy makers as references for advocacy in financial inclusion promotion.Mr. KONAKA Tetsuo, Chief Representative of JICA Vietnam Office and Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Ha, 12th PCC member, President of the VWU at the signing ceremony. (Photo: Quynh … [Read more...] about Better responding to women’s diversified financial inclusion needs

Photo for illustration (Source: nhandan.com.vn)At the meeting, VAAC said that the rate of HIV patients being treating with ARV and having health insurance card is 89%. It is expected that the rate will increase to over 90% by the end of 2018. Four provinces of Ca Mau, Ninh Thuan, Lai Chau and Cao Bang have health insurance coverage rates of 100%, 42 localities have coverage rates of over 90% and the remaining localities have coverage rates of 80-90%. Mr. Nguyen Hoang Long, Head of VAAC, said that to achieve the above positive results, the Ministry of Health has strongly deployed communication work by direct and public communication channels to provide information on the benefits of ARV treatment and early ARV treatment, and the benefits and rights of patients when participating in health insurance for continuous treatment to HIV infected people in order to encourage and mobilize them to voluntarily participate in health insurance. He also said that the Ministry of Health has issued a … [Read more...] about HIV/AIDS patient management information system to be carried out in…

Labour export brings in nearly USD2 billion annually. (Photo: VNA)Over the past years, there are 4 potential markets, including China’s Taiwan, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Europe, with the most notable growth in the Japanese markets with a year-on-year increase of 20%, according to Ms Tran Thi Van Ha, Head of Information and Communications Bureau under the Overseas Laborer Management Department. She added that some 17,400 Vietnamese laborers went to work in Japan in just the 5 first months of this year, accounting for over 35% of the total number of exported laborers. They gain rather high salary at some USD800-2,000, which helps them lead better lives after returning home. Tran Anh Tuan, Deputy Head of the Ho Chi Minh city Centre for Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labor Market Information (FALMI), said that labor export is a large strategy of the nation, adding that there is increasingly high demand of human resources for export. “Statistics from labour export … [Read more...] about Labor export markets expand for high quality human resources

The Cau bridge waste water plant (Photo: VOV)Since 2017, through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the Japanese Government has sponsored the construction of the plant, which can treat 2,000 cubic metres of water per day, using advanced water treatment technology. Accordingly, the Japanese Government has given non-refundable ODA worth JPY1.1 billion for the project, which also uses VND4.2 billion from Quang Nam province’s reciprocal capital, ensuring that waste water is treated before release in Cau bridge canal. The construction helps improve the environment and increase the value of Cau bridge heritage, while ensuring the living environment for over 1,000 residents in 5 wards. As Japan and Vietnam are increasing their strategic partnership, and to realize the policy on high quality infrastructure cooperation by the Japanese Government, JICA will enhance cooperation by carrying out projects on water environment infrastructure, making active contributions to … [Read more...] about Hoi An city: Water treatment plant using Japanese ODA inaugurated